Meanwhile (Good News Translation, Contemporary English Version) is a good connective here, tightening the narrative and making it easier to follow; a new paragraph may be started here.

Looking intently: The adverbial idea intently is built into the Greek verb used here, and New Revised Standard Version has done well to try to represent it.

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Tobit. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2001. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.